The Baggage of Failure

It’s always useful to put failure in perspective.  While Citigroup is likely to announce a $20 billion writedown tomorrow, that’s difficult for most of us to relate to. However, I

January 14, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Friend Hierarchy

Now that I use 267 different social networking tools, I’m confused.  I’ve got so many different "friends", but I don’t know how to differentiate between them. My &quot

January 14, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Recommendation: Get A Gmail Account

Every day I get emails from people working on new startups.  I’m continually amazed at how many of them come from their existing corporate email address.  There are lots of

January 14, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Is Legacy of Ashes Bogus?

In my book review of Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes, I said "This is a chewy and long but if you are looking for an exhaustive, comprehensively researched, and completely

January 14, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Playing With Food

Micah’s tweet led me to Phil Hansen, an artist who is a master of playing with his food. Phil’s Goodbye Art series is awesome.  For a taste of what he

January 13, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Google Fights Back on Software Patents

I’m really pleased that Google has taken an aggressive position in fighting back against the Jarg search patent.  The Jarg patent is another absurd one and Google is on now

January 12, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

TechStars Founders Being Introspective

I’m having such a great time watching and working with the TechStars companies.  As we get ready to launch the application process for TechStars 2008, it’s really gratifying to see [&

January 12, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

FAS 157 – The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Audit

If you are a venture capitalist and you haven’t heard about FAS 157 (also known as Fair Value Accounting), I recommend you ask your accounting firm’s audit partner about it.

January 11, 2008 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Slice of Lime Thinks Out Loud

One of my favorite things about blogging is that it lets you (if you have the courage) think out loud.  As a blogger, you get to try out a bunch

January 11, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Other Stuff vs. Whole Foods

If you live in Boulder, you know that this is the epicenter of the natural foods and all things good for you revolution.  We all love our natural, sugar free,

January 10, 2008 · 1 min · Brad Feld